odd text characters in html chart ' " - getting replaced by�

General Discussion
1

Anyone know why in an html chart the " shows up as a �

For instance: remember to “cock the hammer” shows up as �cock the hammer� It’s also doing it for ’ as in it�s and - as in 1-6 1�6

2

Thus spake sfbaddict:

Anyone know why in an html chart the " shows up as a �

For instance: remember to “cock the hammer” shows up as �cock the
hammer� It’s also doing it for ’ as in it�s and - as in 1-6 1�6

You’re likely having an encoding problem, or the display font lacks
that glpyh. Are these supposed to be curly quotes instead of straight
quotes?

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J.

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3

Problem solved, I opened the html file in a text editor where the odd characters showed up as a square with 0092, 0094, 0096, 0097 in them. I used replace all to put the proper characters in.

4

solved. was not a vassal issue. it was a character encoding issue and copy paste. opening the html file in a simple text editor showed the oddball characters as a square graphic with numbers. I simply retyped the incorrect characters.

5

This most often happens if you cut and paste from Word into a text document. Word likes to replace standard double quote characters with fancy opening and closing quote characters.